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2/n Wladyslawa Konstanska lived in Warsaw with her son and 2 daughters. In 1940, they moved to an apartment building. There they became close friends of the Wierzbicki family who were Jewish.
2/n Arrested on July 11, 1942, Georges Koiransky was interned in the Drancy camp on July 12. He very quickly discovered the reality of this camp, made up of misery and tensions, malnutrition and idleness.
2/n Many were laborers and artisans, and worked in the ports.
2/n Marianne and Lisette were sent in 1939 to the office of the EIF (Israelite Scouts of France) to be evacuated. After the outbreak of war, Marianne's parents were interned in the Gurs camp, as German citizens. She and her sister Lisa then went to Villefranche-de-Rouergue and
2/n Inge was the only child of Berthold and Regina Auerbacher. The Auerbachers were religious Jews who lived in Kippenheim, a village in southwest Germany near the Black Forest. Inge's father was a textile merchant.
2/n In addition to this, the Nazis had increased the so-called Flight Tax, which taxed people emigrating from the country, making emigration even more expensive and therefore not an option for people of the working class. Despite these extensive barriers to emigration,
2/n when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. By the time Haft was 16, he had been separated from his family and sent to a series of concentration camps.
@auschwitzxhibit 2/n Heinrich Himmler was about to visit the extermination camp on July 17 and 18. As the figure of 962 deportees arriving by train from Amsterdam in Westerbork on July 15 was considerably smaller than the Germans had expected – they aimed to deport 4,000 Jews from the Netherlands
2/n due to a lack of spare parts, which officially could not be obtained due to the war. This meant that anyone who wanted to reach the top would have to climb over 1,600 steps.
2/n Rivka-Regina Folkenflick wrote these words to her parents, Chana and Moshe, and her brother, David, from her hiding place, a short time before she was murdered. Chana, Moshe and David survived.
2/n streets additional thousands were arrested by patrols of Romanian and German soldiers and taken to police headquarters. 
2/n rail transport to support Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944. 30,000 railway employees are on strike. The trains don't run anymore until the end of the war. But as a punitive measure, the German occupiers blocked food transports to the provinces of North and South 
2/n Shortly before the Bendin (Będzin) ghetto was liquidated in August 1943, Sara and Yehiel Gerlitz decided to separate from their daughter Dita in order to save her. Assuming they would never see their daughter again,
2/n similar fate had befallen the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice.
2/n In Camp Vught the children had already had a hard time. Children over the age of four were placed in separate barracks and rarely saw their parents, if at all. This was very hard for the children. Some children became rowdy, others very ill. Various contagious diseases were
2/n were gassed shortly after arrival. He was registered as prisoner 106144 and assigned to the Sonderkommando at Birkenau, the unit of prisoners forced to empty gas chambers and burn the bodies, firstly working in Bunker 2, later in Crematorium III.
2/n Taken either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos & fingerprints of the inmates (not of Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came 
2/n remaining Jews into a ghetto.
2/n They were held there in inhumane conditions, as described by their (non-Jewish/Christian) friends who tried to contact them. Many had nothing to wear other than the clothes they were in at the time of their arrest.
2/n Starting in 1927, Stern looked after his sister Martha and became the legal guardian of her son Rudolf.